Brett Geeves was a very good shield bowler.
As for the article it makes lots of good points although I do not agree with them all.
Lehmann has an excellent cricketing brain, he understands the game and an excellent shield captain. Still that does not mean he does not make mistakes or is just as good as a coach.
The preoccupation with low quality or fake all rounders batting 6 goes way beyond Lehmann and it is very harmful for the team. The likes of Marsh, Cartwright, Henriques, Stoinis, Agar and Maxwell should be nowhere near the test side as number 6 batsmen. Cartwright probably has the potential to become quite a good batsman and Stoinis is probably closer to a specialist batsman although not proven to be test quality yet.
Not selecting Khawaja ahead of Marsh in the first two tests was simply wrong.
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